Category Archives: Tax Issues

IRS Tips: Five Tips if You Changed Your Name Due to Marriage or Divorce

Posted on February 24th, 2011 by Burton S. Hochberg

From IRS.gov IRS TAX TIP 2011-23 If you changed your name as a result of a recent marriage or divorce you’ll want to take the necessary steps to ensure the name on your tax return matches the name registered with … Continue reading →

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Tax Filing or Fooling: Review Your Spouse’s Tax Forms

Posted on February 17th, 2011 by Carlton R. Marcyan

Among the annual rites of spring is the filing of your income tax return. In the majority of households, that means one spouse will simply ask another to ”sign here,” and the other spouse never looks at any part of … Continue reading →

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What to Do With Your Social Security Tax Holiday

Posted on February 8th, 2011 by Dorothy A. Voigt

The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 provides a one-year tax “holiday” for taxpayers by reducing the amount of Social Security taxes collected.   A tax reduction, you say?  How is that going to work? The … Continue reading →

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